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Chapter 4: The Trigger

"Get up, Juno! Eat these, fast, and get your ass on deck soon or there'll be a lashing for you! Captain's in a wild mood today," Maccus set down some food and water at the door to Juno's cell. He waited till she stirred a bit. "Juno?"

"Hnn? Hmm?"

"NOW!"

Juno sat bolt upright, and the Shark man took his leave. Quickly, she grabbed some pants near her, and set to eating her breakfast quickly. It was raining outside. She could hear the droplets of rain. There was a lot of shouting and commotion on the ship today.

As she made her way to the deck, she found everyone on the crew was busy with something. Her eyes scanned the ship looking for the Shark man. She didn't spot him, but she did see Puffer fish man. "Koleniko!" she shouted. He didn't hear her above the commotion. Juno started towards him, but something caught her arm in a viselike grip. She emitted a short yelp and was snapped back into place, slamming hard into something. As she looked up, she found herself facing an angry looking Davy Jones. At only 5"5, Davy's impressive 6"3 towered over her.

"And just where do you think you're going, Miss Alex?" he asked, as his hold on her arm became increasingly harder.

"Sir…I was…I…"

Jones shoved something at her. "You are to keep these on your person at all times. I will have no fainting from you today. I need you down in the hold. The crew is bringing up the extra cannons and you will help them." Davy looked out to the ocean, "I want more firepower." He let go of her arm and walked away.

Juno looked down at what was thrust into her arms. It was another flask of water, and some more food. She quickly put it in her pocket, and tied the flask around her belt. The look in her Captain's eyes today was different than any she had seen before. There was bloodlust today. Whatever was in that chest he was talking about seemed important.

As she helped the crew with hoisting the extra cannons up from the hold, she began to wonder exactly what was in the chest, and why it was so important. Doing such monotonous and repetitive work left her time to think. "Hadras?" she addressed the Shell Head. "What's in that chest? The one the Captain was yelling about last night?"

"Not your place to ask me, and not my place to tell you," was the answer she received. And it was the same answer she received from anyone else, it seemed. When at last, the final cannon was hauled up, she stopped to catch her breath, and noticed blood on her pants. Confused, she looked at her hands. They were covered in blood from various cuts and rope burns. As she looked closer however, she noticed that the injuries were healing. Slowly, but surely, the cuts were closing up. What the…

"Miss Alex!" came a shout from above. It was Jones. "Get up here, now!"

Her mind was whirling with ideas about the chest and as she got closer to him, she couldn't resist. "Sir, what's in the chest we're after?"

Davy stiffened and glared down at her. "None of your business. And why is there blood on your pants?" Davy motioned to her legs. "Show me your hands!" But when he looked at them, they were completely fine. Not a cut on them. His eyes narrowed on her, as she shrunk back. He realized he enjoyed this. He enjoyed the moments when he could see fear in her eyes, and smell the fear rising from her skin.

Why is he looking at me like that? Wondered Juno. His eyes were full of a sadistic desire. She knew he liked to scare her. But part of her wanted that. She realized she enjoyed it. His dominating stature, the way he would order her around. She liked it.

"Sir! I think we're getting close!" shouted Maccus.

Jones snapped out of it, and replied, "Good. Get ready to take her down."

"Aye, sir."

"Miss Alex, I trust you remember the way to my cabin?" he purred. As she nodded, he motioned for her to go, and said, "I want to you to secure yourself there and wait until you're called to come back out. Wouldn't want you to get all wet now, would we? Hahaha…"

The look in his eyes and way he said 'wet' gave Juno shivers. She watched the Captain disappear around the corner before she moved. Juno was wondering what he had meant by 'down', and as she opened the door to the Captain's cabin, she got her answer. The entire ship tilted forward, as if diving! She barely had time to shut the door as water cascaded all around the ship.

…..

Juno looked at her surroundings, and found them familiar. The Captain's cabin hadn't changed at all since she was last there. The bed was a bit more rumpled, and there were papers scattered on the table. She picked up a few, and noticed they were letters from people representing some sort of company: The East India Trading Company. There was one letter marked with ink. It seemed that Jones had circled words on it. The word 'chest' was circled over and over again. The letter spoke of control, controlling the sea. So, whatever is in that chest will help them control the sea… Juno dropped the letter back on the table and walked over to the large thing at the end of the room. She ran her fingers over the black and white structures. It seemed familiar to her. Just then, something caught her attention. Something crawled quickly across the floor. It was only a hermit crab, but to Juno, it was the beginning of a sort of cat and mouse chase. She smiled to herself as she got down on all fours to hunt for the thing.

Perhaps is she wasn't so absorbed in her hunt for the crab, she would have noticed the upward tilt of the ship as it resurfaced. In fact, she was so absorbed in her little game that she didn't notice the sounds coming from outside the door. She completely missed the knock and the shouts for her to come back out. It wasn't until the door opened that she took notice they weren't underwater anymore.

"Who are you?" she asked the man that came through. She was puzzled as to what a man would be doing on board. From her first night on board, she gathered that men were either killed, or coerced into Davy's service. So what was this man doing here?

"What? A girl? Oh my God! Come with me! We'll take you back, don't worry!" He reached an arm out to her and took hold of her wrist.

"But, what about the Captain? What will he say?" Juno didn't want to make her Captain angry, and wasn't sure of what to do.

"Jones? Don't worry. We'll get him this time."

"Get him? What do you mean you'll get-" she stopped mid-sentence as she looked around her. The Dutchman had been boarded, and there was a battle in full swing. "What's going on?"

"Don't worry, just stay by my side and everything will be alright!" assured the man.

Juno's heart was pounding. Chaos erupted all around her, and she was trying to focus on what was happening. What do I do?? And it was then she saw it: The Captain, fighting 4 men at a time. They were up by the ship's steering wheel. The men were attacking her Captain! She wrenched herself free of the man's grip.

"You tricked me," she said, menacingly.

"What? What are you talking about! Come on, girl! We have to get you off this boat!"

"You're trying to hurt the Captain! You tricked me!!" Juno was hysterical. The man watched in horror as the girl he was trying to save grew angrier and angrier.

"Of course! He's Davy Jones! He's-"

"CAPTAIN Davy Jones is MY Captain!" Juno shouted. And as she looked above once again, she saw the Captain was giving it his best, but against 4 men all at the same time, he was beginning to falter. The rest of the crew was busy with their own fights, no one could help him. No one except her. And that's when she snapped.

…..

Juno took deep breaths and closed her eyes for a second, calculating what she should do. When she opened them again, her eyes were no longer that dark brown they once were, but a deep golden colour. The man who had tried to 'save' her was backing away. But she was too quick. In one motion, she grabbed the dagger at her side and swung out, slashing the man's throat. She looked above to where the Captain was, and was horrified to see that he was staggering backwards. Quickly, she calculated what she could do. And an instant later, she began running toward the Captain. She threw the dagger in her right hand and it aimed true. It struck one of the men right in his left temple. For a split second, each man looked toward where the dagger was thrown from, and it was that split second Juno was counting on. She jumped into the air and flipped herself between the two men behind Jones. She gave the man in front of her a roundhouse kick, sending him to the floor. With her left hand, as she rounded the kick she used her remaining dagger to slice open the other man. She traced the imaginary line between the appendix and the heart with her knife. There was one other man left, and as he was about to plunge his sword into Jones, she jumped once more and landed between them. Having no weapon left, she used the only other thing she had to block the man's lunge: Her shoulder.

There was a gasp from both men as the sword cut through her. Jones' mouth was open and his eyes wild with shock. The other man was equally confused. But the girl he was looking at was like a demon. Her hair was plastered to her face and the rain had soaked through her clothes. There were blood spatterings all over her and her face. The look in her eyes was cold and angry, her golden eyes shone with hate.

Juno stepped forward, the sword cutting deeper into her. The man let go and faltered backward. She smiled a sick smile and threw a right hook. As the man was jolted to her left, her left hand came up and swiftly uppercut the man's jaw. As he fell to the deck, it was clear his neck had been broken. Juno turned around, hoping her Captain would be satisfied.

Jones looked at Juno with perplexity. There was a sword through her shoulder, but the girl did not seem to be in pain. He saw her eyes were not deep brown anymore, but they were strange and gold coloured. This was not the same girl that woke up on his ship this morning. This girl was something different. He stood there, just looking at her, her clothes clinging to her, and the wild look in her eyes. He took a step toward her.

She watched as he came toward her, her eyes drawn to his. She did not flinch when Jones reached out and grabbed the sword in her shoulder. He pulled it out swiftly. She grimaced a little, but the sensation was a mix of pain, and pleasure. She was pleased that she had protected her Captain. Juno could only stand and stare, as Jones came closer. She couldn't pull away from the look in his eyes. He was close now, close enough that a few stray tentacles could touch her face.

"Captain! It's not on board their ship!" Maccus interrupted. Behind him, most of the human crewmembers were dead, or close to. It seemed they had lost the battle.

Jones turned to him. "Then it goes down! Run out the cannons! I want to see that ship on the bottom of the ocean floor!" Davy took one more look at Juno as he descended to the main level to shout out more orders.

Again she was glued to the spot while her heart pounded in her ears. What just happened?

If anyone was looking, they would have seen her eyes darken again to deep brown. Juno clutched her shoulder, the wound was gone! It healed almost instantly! She sunk to her knees and looked at the devastation around her. Four men were dead. Did she really do that? She remembered so clearly her actions, but it was almost as if she couldn't control herself. It's as if she was only the ghost in the machine when it was happening. Oh my God…I killed these men? Juno buried her face in her hands and wept.

…..

By the time she looked up and around again, the other ship was nowhere to be seen. Sunk, she assumed. The crew was already cleaning up the aftermath of the battle and tending to their wounds. She barely noticed Jones come up behind her.

"You did this." Jones motioned to the four dead men around her. "You did this for me."

Juno's head snapped up as he said this. I did, didn't I?

Davy came around to face her. He knelt down to be at her eye level, and tipped up her chin with his hand. "Why did you do this?"

She found she couldn't bear to look in his eyes anymore. She just stared down. She was watching his tentacles squirm, and without thinking she reached out tentatively and touched one. Jones flinched a little. But he didn't move away.

…..

"Maccus, psst, look." Koleniko pointed up to the wheel.

Maccus looked up to see the Captain kneeling in front of Juno, staring at her. She was holding one of his tentacles in her hand. The look in her eyes was a little sad. "We'd best be quiet about that," he whispered.

…..

Back in her room, Juno was sitting on the floor, hugging her knees to herself. She didn't know what happened today. She had killed four men without a thought and afterward shared, what, some kind of moment with the Captain? What was she doing? She had no right! It was her duty to serve him, and that was all. But she couldn't ignore the looks he threw her way. The way his eyes moved over her, or her the beating of her heart whenever he was close. And when she touched him. He had let her.

"Juno. Get out of those clothes or you'll catch something horrible. By the way, nice work today. During the battle, I mean." Maccus was at her door again. Eyeing her. Had he seen what transpired between her and Jones?

"Yeah, I will. Thanks," she smiled weakly.

"Be careful."

"Huh?"

"With the Captain. Don't hurt him, or there'll be hell to pay." And with that, Maccus was gone.

Don't hurt him?? What does he mean?? My duty is to protect him!

Juno fell asleep with troubled thoughts on her mind. Not even her Whale, her familiar 'face' could comfort her tonight.

…..

The tune coming from the organ was harsh and dark. Davy couldn't remember the last time he had felt like this. But what was he feeling anyway? He knew he liked it that the girl was following orders. But was there more? Frustrated, he banged on the organ some cluster chords, and sat back.

"I don't need this!" he yelled to no one in particular.

Annoyed with himself, he threw off his hat and coat, and walked to his bed. He wouldn't be getting a good night's sleep tonight.

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Author's note: Wooh, that was long. I didn't mean for this chapter to be that long! But it was a lot of fun to write. My own heart was racing writing out the scene between Juno and Davy. Well, it might be a while before I update again, so I hope you all enjoyed!